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From: "Santiago M. Mola" <coldwind@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The Plethora of Patches
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:10:23
Message-Id: 3c32af40808181510g29760714n54820dc13c8d0a57@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] The Plethora of Patches by Tobias Scherbaum
1 On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:02 AM, Tobias Scherbaum
2 <dertobi123@g.o> wrote:
3 > Santiago M. Mola wrote:
4 >
5 >> However, tracking the status of every patch since its inclusion in
6 >> portage until it's removed would be a huge work overhead... and I
7 >> doubt it's worthy.
8 >
9 > I don't think it's a huge work overhead, it'll take an additional minute
10 > per included patch to include a minimal description into the ebuild(s)
11 > and use a standardized header for the patch. Compared to the time one
12 > needs to spend when searching for information on that patch somewhen
13 > later on it's worth every minute.
14 >
15
16 Of course, puting a header with info in every patch is not a work
17 overhead and I'd say it should be policy. What I meant is that it's no
18 worth to track the status of every patch after it's added, as was
19 suggested.
20
21 Regards,
22 --
23 Santiago M. Mola
24 Jabber ID: cooldwind@×××××.com

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Re: [gentoo-dev] The Plethora of Patches Tobias Scherbaum <dertobi123@g.o>